flowers

I know there are lots of gardeners in here so I thought I'd ask how many of you bring the flowers indoors?

This is one of my absolute favorite things to do. If one type of flower dies before I get to clip it and bring it in, I feel like it had a wasted season.

LILACS, LILACS, LILACS galore. I love them and miss them since living in this dam desert.

As you know Dotsie, my husbnd has quite the garden on our patio. He has some indoor plants as well, but not many. The only one he takes in is the hibiscus tree. It's the second one he's had. It loves being outside, but blooms inside during the winter too. He keeps it inside until the summer. Then he puts is out on the deck for the summer. It's doing well. Right now it has pretty pale orange flowers.

Louisa

I have a lot of indoor plants, and a few outdoor. This was to be the year I worked more on outside projects, but honestly? It's just too blaming hot. Maybe next Spring...or this Fall.

JJ

Black Thumb! Yup, that's me. I think it's because I forget to water the poor things.

My hubby is the gardener in the family, but he's out of town now and I feel great pressure to keep his babies alive until he gets back. We have a new lawn (with plugs that are growing together - I hope!) and flower pots, and... oh gosh, I know I'll forget to water something!

Kathy

That's how we lost our last hibiscus tree. He was away and I watered it. Hey, I tried. It upped and died anyway.
Louisa

Dotsie, I love cut flowers. I always try to bring in a bit of flowers from each season. My fav. is peonies, the entire room fills with fragrance. I love to keep a bud vase at the kitchen sink, I thoroughly enjoy fresh flowers while I work in the kitchen. Currently my bud vase at the sink has Rose of Sharon in pink and purple blooms with a Coleous leaf and asparagus fern....

If I had enough garden space/time/energy and could work from home I probably would keep fresh flowers in every room.....

Starting over, I have Rose of Sharon in those same colors. We have a tall hedge of that across the back of our yard. One of my son's birthdays is August first. I always recall having a big vase of Rose of Sharon in the house for his birthday parties.

I think I'll bring some in and put them by the sink and think of you and all my other BWS friends.

I received a breathtaking bouquet of tall salmon colored flowers with darked orange trim in a beautiful stained glass vase several days ago from a BWS sister in Germany. They are still looking fresh and remind me of jonquils. Thanks you so much, you know who you are!!!

I love Marigolds and Rose bushes that were doing so good until the heat got so bad here . Lilys , I have Lilac bushes around my patio in the spring and they smell so good. I saw a lot of Rose a Sharon in the South in Ala , but they haven't done well in my garden area for some reason.

ohhh, for the first time in 6 years, I have been able to grow...zinnias! I LOVE them. they are hardier than dahlias which I also love, but won't grow in this heat. We have organic soil now and some of these babies are 5 feet tall!

Oh, I have flowers by the kitchen sink too! The zinnias.
We pulled down the birdhouse gourd vine yesterday. It was encroaching on the sea buckthorn trees we are experimentally growing here. I will have none of that! Only one gourd too.

I know I'm new here and I know I talk alot, however I'm really glad to have found this place. My best email friend, and really, my best friend other than the Lord died in April. She was a heart friend and we would write missives when we wrote, but we didn't write every week. maybe every
1-2 months for a few at a time, then nothing for another month or two.

I would have told her about my zinnias and I'm really missing her today for some reason. She lived in NZ. I never met her face to face, but we saw each other on video cam and talked on the computer before skype was alive.

me